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Hugh Laurie took a break from his day job on the hit series House and got animated in the box-office hit Monsters vs. Aliens.

After revealing the details of his stint as a mad scientist cockroach in the animated family film, the actor discusses the possibility of a death at the end of this season of House — and what fans can expect from Dr. House.

Q: How did you get that demented mad scientist laugh down?

A: I don’t really practice that. I just do that when the mood takes me. It’s a little bit unpleasant for people I work with.

A: But that’s not good enough. I will survive a stepping. They are pretty much indestructible. They can survive for three, four months. I’ve researched cockroaches, by the way.

Q: I can tell.

A: I don’t just walk in and play a role, I do my homework. Three or four months without food and a couple of months without water, extremes of temperature, extremes of everything, extremes of stepping on. The great thing about doing this is it was such an escape. I got to spend a day in a completely different world that had nothing to do with House. That was a wonderful thing, I mean I love doing House, don’t get me wrong. I love the people I work with, they are a fantastic bunch, but, every now and then a change is not a bad thing.

Q: Wherever you go now, you hear that someone is going to die at the end of the season.

A: Yes, but on every show. There are people dying on every show. Yeah, death is all around us. Q: I know you’re not going to reveal who is going to die…

A: Can’t. If I could reveal it to anybody, I would reveal it to you. But I can’t.

Q: But I need to know one thing, was it something House said?

A: I’ve even got to be careful how I answer that because that is possibly true. One of the pieces of self-examination that House has to go through is the part that he played in this…event. Let me put it that way. I can go no further. But you’re right, there is something in that. I can tell you that it’s quite something. The last six shows are very, very ambitious, and we are going out on a limb here. House has problems of his own. And they’re big problems.

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